Elderly women living alone in Spain: the importance of having children.
Our goal in this paper is to analyse the extent to which completed fertility, and in particular childlessness, is a valid predictor of living alone at advanced ages, an increasingly important residential option in advanced societies with crucial implications for social policy design and the organiza...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Ageing Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 311 - 323 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2017
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